US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Photodetectors integrated into thin-film transistor backplanes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,344, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Photodetectors integrated into thin-film transistor backplanes" was invented by Ching-Sang Chuang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiun-Jye Chang (Cupertino, Calif.), Po-Chun Yeh (Cupertino, Calif.), Shih Chang Chang (Cupertino, Calif.), Ting-Kuo Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Yun Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a stack, and the stack includes a substrate, and a multi-layer structure deposited on the substrate and including a set of TFTs. The electronic device further includes a photodetector attached to the multi-layer str...